Redfish are among top inshore targets

GO FISHING is a look at the area fishing scene through the eyes of local charter boat captains and fishing guides. Today: Bill Miller.

In between cold fronts, inshore fishing is very good.

Redfish are thick around Tarpon Key. Use an electric motor on low speed, or a push pole, to approach the fishing area. Live white bait or cut pinfish are good baits for redfish.

Captain Billy Miller guided Todd Miller to a 36-inch snook along with lots of speckled trout, Spanish mackerel and pompano. The snook ate a piece of fresh-cut ladyfish and the rest were caught on Lil Johns and pompano jigs with teaser flies.

Hubbard’s Marina reports good action at the John’s Pass jetty on sheepshead, flounder and mackerel. Sheepshead and flounder are biting live shrimp on the bottom and the mackerel have been hitting silver Gotcha plugs.

Offshore trips are producing red grouper up to 20 pounds and lots of Spanish mackerel trolling spoons behind a planer.